Location: Alliance Française de Trivandrum
City: Trivandrum
Date: Sat, 2011/02/12 – 2:30pm
Price: Free.
Category: Film screening
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and narrated by Glenn Close (2009, 90 mins)
In the past 200,000 years humans have upset the balance of planet Earth, a balance established by nearly four billion years of evolution. We must act now. It’s too late to be pessimist. The price is too high. Humanity has little time to reverse the trend and change its pattern of consumption.
Through visually stunning footage from over fifty countries, all shot from an aerial perspective, Yann Arthus-Bertrand shows us a view most of us have never seen. He shares with us his sense of awe about our planet and his concern for its health. With this film, Arthus-Bertrand hopes to provide a stepping-stone to further the call to action to take care of our HOME.
Directed by Guillaume de Ginestel (2007, 52 mins)
This documentary focuses on one of the ecological treasures of the most unsung Cameroon: the forest Bakossi, recently discovered by a team of botanists from the English Royal Botanic Gardens, conducted by Martin Cheek, and becoming in a few years the first forest in terms of the number of flower species throughout the tropical Africa. A forest that, despite the protection of the tribe Bakossi and the warning given by British researchers, is about to be destroyed by timber companies.
